HERE’S a good lead:Danny DeVito closed the deal this week to star in a Broadway revival ofDavid Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” next season, sources close to the actor told The Post yesterday.

DeVito will play Shelly Levene, a once great real estate salesman who has hit the skids and is desperately trying to avoid being packed off to Willy Loman land.

DeVito will be making his Broadway debut in the revival, which will be directed by Daniel Sullivan (“Proof,” “Morning’s at Seven”) and produced byRobert Cole.

The budget will be $1.5 million.

No other actor has been signed yet but Cole is said to have on his wish list Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin, both of whom gave memorable turns in the 1992 movie.

The original “Glengarry Glen Ross,” a dog-devour-dog story about a corrupt real estate office, opened on Broadway in 1984 and starred Robert Prosky and Joe Mantegna.

It won the Pulitzer Prize that year but lost the Tony to Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing.”

The play grew out of Mamet’s experiences as a typist in a Chicago real estate office.

“The salesmen in the office were the most driven guys I’ve ever met,” the playwright once said. “They were selling worthless land in Arizona and Florida to unsuspecting people, and they had to make the sale to eat.”

A little-known fact: Harold Pinter had a hand in the success of “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Mamet was having trouble finishing the script, so he sent it to Pinter and asked him for guidance.

“Just stage it,” Pinter said, then sent the script on to Peter Hall, then director of the National Theatre in London.

The National produced the play, to great acclaim.

“Glengarry Glen Ross” is said to be the most lucrative of all of Mamet’s plays, and is frequently staged in theaters throughout the world.

Footnote: Rhea Perlman, DeVito’s wife, is about to make her Broadway debut as well.

She takes over the title role in “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife” from Valerie Harper next month.

BUSINESS has dropped off so precipitously at “Urinetown” that the producers are passing out blocks of free tickets.

The Araca Group, which is producing the show, sent out an e-mail this week offering “great free tickets to ‘Urinetown’ ” for performances this weekend and next.

The Post obtained a copy of the e-mail, which was sent to assorted Broadway insiders.

The e-mail read: “Invite as many people as you can. Feel free to pass this on to your friends. Enjoy!”

“Urinetown” – which will soon be locked in a tough race for the Tony against “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Mamma Mia!” – has long billed itself as a “hit musical.”

But for the past several weeks, it’s been playing to half-full houses.

A production source says Tony voters are filing through this weekend “and we don’t want the theater to look empty.”

I’m not a big fan of “Urinetown,” but I’m going to put my feelings aside for the moment and do my part to help this struggling little show.

So, to quote the e-mail: “If you would like free, great tickets to ‘Urinetown,’ please call JIMMY at (212) 869-0070.”

Enjoy!

FELICIA Finley, the knockout star of “Aida,” will perform her nightclub act at the Ars Nova Theater on Monday, May 6. She’ll sing songs by Patsy Cline, Sting and Alanis Morissette.

Once a month, as part of its Broadway Spotlight series, Ars Nova turns over its 99-seat theater to a Broadway performer.

This is fine opportunity to see some little known but extremely talented theater artists in an intimate setting.